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Shrinking newsrooms wage fewer public access battles

"You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice.

'The days of powerful newspapers with ample legal budgets appear to be numbered,' a public defender in Georgia, Gerard Kleinrock, wrote in a recent Supreme Court brief. 'Will underfunded bloggers be able to carry the financial burdens of opening our courtrooms?'